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Is this the same comic that (appeared in newspapers yesterday|will appear in newspapers today)? If so, he said in a blog post a few months ago that the normal l
by jackowayed 16y ago
Is this the same comic that (appeared in newspapers yesterday|will appear in newspapers today)? If so, he said in a blog post a few months ago that the normal lag is ~a month and the best he could do was like 2 weeks. (Those numbers are a little off, I'm sure.)
But if this is just an online version (it is /fast, whatever that means), it might be a different story.
- steamboiler 16y agoit is /fast, whatever that means AFAIK /fast is an URL to read just the comics "fast" without spending bandwidth loading all the additional information presented in the landing page of the website.
- pchristensen 16y agoIt also doesn't use flash. A gift to *nixy and mobile readers.
- piaskal 16y agoI thought newspapers publish the comic one week before it's on the web.
- bigiain 16y agoFWIW, the previous comic to this one in that website, labeled July 14th, was in yesterday's July 14th newspaper here (Yes, I'm from Sydney Australia, we live _in the future!_ aka UTC+10)
- ax0n 16y agoYou, sir, are personally responsible for 3.2 fluid ounces of coffee that's all over my montors at work. Well played!
- philwelch 16y agoSo he has to keep 2-4 weeks upstream of trends? I guess that's possible, too. Doonesbury has a 10 day lead time, which is still challenging for Trudeau to remain topical: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/faq_cs.html http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/faqs/faq_cs.html